CAS Colours & Sketches #272 - Colour Challenge

It's a colour challenge week on the CAS Colours and Sketches Challenge Blog.  Our colours are Pacific Point, So Saffron, and Pear Pizzaz.  I'm on a roll with coloring on colored cardstock lately.  I started using my small collection of Prismacolor pencils, but didn't have the right blue for Pacific Point. I went to my granddaughters' craft desk and grabbed the 50 colored pencils I purchased from Costco last year and scored! They actually worked well for most of this image!

I can't ever remember inking this stamp up and it's old enough that Stampendous doesn't even list it anymore! (It's called Jar Bouquet.)  I thought it would be perfect to use as a Mother's Day card for my mom for our CC&S color challenge.  Love how those little blue flowers look!

Take a peek at the DT makes HERE and then try your hand at this week's colours!  Hope to see you in the gallery.

Challenges Entered:
Papercraft Challenges #11/  Flowers
Retro Rubber #86/ - Flowers

My Time to Craft #370 - Colour on Coloured Card

Back with Challenge #370 on the My Time to Craft Challenge Blog.  This one is showing off your colouring on any card base colour except white!  I chose Sahara Sand and used the stamp Mason Jar of Flowers from Stamping Bella.  I pulled out white embossing powder and my colored pencils for this one.

Hope you will join our MTTC challenge.  Be sure to take a peek at the DT inspiration on the blog!

Challenges Entered:
Crafty Catz #415/ - Just add flowers
CASusal Fridays #198/ - April Showers Bring May Flowers
Pattie's Creations #146/ - Flowers
Cute Card Thursday #528/ - AG
Seize the Birthday April 26 /- AG

CAS Colours & Sketches #270 - Colour Challenge

Happy MAY CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge Friends!!  We are thrilled to see grass again here in Minnesota, so I thought I would celebrate spring with my CC&S card this week.  I love the warmth of the sun and the lengthening days!

CC&S #270 is a colour challenge and I had a whole different card in mind when I originally thought of this combination.  I don't have Berry Burst, so I substituted Rose Red for the ribbon - which is much pinker than it looks in the photo! The boots are from an old Flourishes called April Showers and Right At Home Stamps' "hello" sentiment from their Thanks a Bunch stamp set.

I hope you will play along with us this week; take a peek at the DT inspiration here!

Challenges Entered:
Dream Valley #178/ - Add Ribbon or Lace
Make My Monday #70/ - Embossing
Use Your Stuff /- AG

Playing with Colored Pencils and White Embossing Powder

Just spending time in my craft room playing this morning with a new purchase from Avery Elle Stamps (Floral Frame), colored pencils and white embossing powder on kraft paper.  The white embossed sentiment is from W Plus 9 and finished off with some splatters of diluted white acrylic paint, a couple of rhinestones and twine and a button.

I am loving the look of colored pencils on kraft paper.  I got a package of 36 colored pencils from Costco for less than $10 - and they seem to do the trick!  I invested in Copics a few years back, so I don't want to put lots of money into other coloring media!  I'm pretty pleased with how these colored up!

Challenges Entered:
CAS-ual Fridays/ - No Dies Allowed
TGIFC #100/ - inspired by Mercedes Weber (love all of her flower cards)
613 Avenue Create March Challenge/ - No digis
Cute Card Thursday #470/ - Spring Fever
International Art & Soul #4 /- Embossing
Make My Monday #42/ - White embossing

A Day for Daisies January Challenge - Two or More Layers

Happy New Year!  It's hard to believe we are already one week into 2017.

I am crazy about layers, so this month's challenge theme (Two or More Layers) is a no brainer for me!  I count five layers!  No Copics on this card; I tried my hand at colored pencils.  I love how they look on kraft paper (even though this is Sahara Sand).  I just have an inexpensive set of 24 Crayola colored pencils, and was pleasantly surprised how well they worked.  I bought a Prismacolor white for the shading.

You can't tell from the photo, but her wings sparkle.  I made the background paper using a Hero Arts stamp (thanks Daria!!- Love it!!) and white embossing powder.  White gel pen gave the appearance of snow in the globe.  Sketch Saturday's great sketch helped give me a plan for my card design.





Get your layers on and join the A Day for Daisies Challenge this month!   You have until January 31st to upload your card in the gallery.  Remember, challenge winners receive ADFD images and a chance to be a guest designer.   Check out the inspiration from the DT here!

Challenges Entered:
Sketch Saturday #444/
Crafting By Designs January Challenge - AG
Crafty Gals #104/ - Use Something New (Hero arts stamp and blue MFT paper)
Little Red Wagon #375 - Something New (new stash bg stamp and paper)
Craft Rocket #30 - Something New (Hero arts stamp and blue MFT paper)
Fab & Funky #332 /- Little Girls